Describing Words
This tool helps you find adjectives for things that you're trying to describe. Also check out ReverseDictionary.org and RelatedWords.org.
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Words to Describe delicacy
Below is a list of describing words for delicacy. You can sort the descriptive words by uniqueness or commonness using the button above. Sorry if there's a few unusual suggestions! The algorithm isn't perfect, but it does a pretty good job for most common nouns. Here's the list of words that can be used to describe delicacy:
- wholly unattainable
- excessive and imperious
- aside scrupulous
- acute, nervous
- extreme and almost morbid
- extreme and tireless
- whimsical feminine
- certain doric
- hauntingly fragile
- absurd and disturbing
- great spicy
- hazy uncertain
- uninviting feathered
- fastidious or romantic
- exquisite and spectral
- fastidious, feline
- rarely satisfying
- slow and almost dainty
- peculiar refined
- barren and old-fashioned
- correct and slender
- true home-bred
- wonderfully cautious
- bucolic and erotic
- dreadful regional
- utmost feminine
- utmost diplomatic
- extreme fastidious
- swift and insane
- romantic unnatural
- small, extreme
- finest and most affectionate
- sensitive wistful
- aside feminine
- peculiar and fastidious
- reverent and whimsical
- never shy
- naturally sweet and spontaneous
- hesitant spiritual
- intact and even chivalrous
- irritable and scrupulous
- lovable, feminine
- other unabashed
- feminine and intimate
- dreamlike, poetic
- almost puny
- piquant and delicious
- pardonable but harmful
- inordinate and delightful
- eager, lavish and pathetic
- extreme international
- heartfelt unobtrusive
- temper--natural
- unequalled and personal
- coarse, less
- habitual chaste
- fastidious and feminine
- superior and highly sensitive
- fantastic, poetical
- soft elemental
- young and innate
- fine, suggestive
- graceful and almost girlish
- indescribable patrician
- instead morbid
- ostentatiously morbid
- unnecessary but commendable
- airy and attractive
- unnatural feminine
- deformed psychical
- greater tentative
- intensely native and instinctive
- intensely native
- superbly subtle
- careless, cruel
- delightfully surprising
- useless fragile
- exquisite girlish
- infinite and inconceivable
- conventional and sensitive
- nice female
- fine, secret
- usual refined
- morenatural
- wonderful blue-ribbon
- tart or other
- supremely refined
- pink and blonde
- tac\-tual
- exquisite gay
- fullest contractual
- well-nigh fantastic
- apparent doll-like
- whole nameless
- intuitive and feminine
- pure, instinctive
- sweet and spontaneous
- occasionally exquisite
- material, utmost
- true innate
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Describing Words
The idea for the Describing Words engine came when I was building the engine for Related Words (it's like a thesaurus, but gives you a much broader set of related words, rather than just synonyms). While playing around with word vectors and the "HasProperty" API of conceptnet, I had a bit of fun trying to get the adjectives which commonly describe a word. Eventually I realised that there's a much better way of doing this: parse books!
Project Gutenberg was the initial corpus, but the parser got greedier and greedier and I ended up feeding it somewhere around 100 gigabytes of text files - mostly fiction, including many contemporary works. The parser simply looks through each book and pulls out the various descriptions of nouns.
Hopefully it's more than just a novelty and some people will actually find it useful for their writing and brainstorming, but one neat little thing to try is to compare two nouns which are similar, but different in some significant way - for example, gender is interesting: "woman" versus "man" and "boy" versus "girl". On an inital quick analysis it seems that authors of fiction are at least 4x more likely to describe women (as opposed to men) with beauty-related terms (regarding their weight, features and general attractiveness). In fact, "beautiful" is possibly the most widely used adjective for women in all of the world's literature, which is quite in line with the general unidimensional representation of women in many other media forms. If anyone wants to do further research into this, let me know and I can give you a lot more data (for example, there are about 25000 different entries for "woman" - too many to show here).
The blueness of the results represents their relative frequency. You can hover over an item for a second and the frequency score should pop up. The "uniqueness" sorting is default, and thanks to my Complicated Algorithm™, it orders them by the adjectives' uniqueness to that particular noun relative to other nouns (it's actually pretty simple). As you'd expect, you can click the "Sort By Usage Frequency" button to adjectives by their usage frequency for that noun.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source mongodb which was used in this project.
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